good monday morning, right now on "first look," the release of the so-called senatorture report. the white house is aware that it could cause a response around the globe. i can't breathe, readying new profiling rules for federal agencies. russia's putin squeezed, the sanctions are working. and william and his pregnant white kate have a full schedule of meet and greets. and we have the details. thank you for joining us today, i'm betty wynn. the explosive report is set to be released and examines torture

practices like water boarding. and like it or not, it'll go public, possibly tomorrow. some consider it a major risk, though. senior intelligence officials warn there is a heightened potential for a violent response. it was echoed on cbs's face the nation. >> this will be used by our enemies to motivate people to attack americans and american facilities overseas. i am concerned boy that, and the secretary of state and the direct er of national intelligence. >> president george w. bush also came to the defense of the cia. >> these are patriots. whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base. >> but senator dianne feinstein ahead of the intelligence committee told the l.a. times that i undermine societal and

constitutional values we are proud of up anybody who reads this is going to never let it happen again. changes to racial profiling could come as early as today. they are continues to stop people based on race and nationality if there is information of a threat. but they are extending the ban on racial profiling to include religion, national orbegin, gender and gender identity. he promised that the new standards would help end racial profiliing once and for all. it comes during the nationwide protests involving the racially-charged problems with police. last night it got violent after

explosives were thrown. in new york city, a more peaceful protest inside of grand central terminal. supporters chanteder ingarner's final words, i can't breathe. and at games, reggie bush wore a t-shirt back with the detroit lions yesterday. and derrick rose wore one during saturday's warmup. tweeting a picture showing the phrase on his cleats, and actor jaime foxx gave his reaction to the protesters saying, quote, we'll probably have to have a few uncomfortable conversations to sort of get things wrong so everybody can walk and enjoy america like it's supposed to be enjoyed. brian ross is live in washington. what's the late snes. >> president obama has looked at a task force to build confidence long-term.

but demonstrators in cities around the country are demanding justice now. the protests continued through the weekend, so did a national conversation about race and justice. >> i don't think that anybody that watches that video is not disturbed by what they saw. >> reporter: new york's police commissioner said an internal investigation into the chokehold death of eric garner should be completed in four months, but they are moving now to retrain the entire force. >> this is not just one case. >> reporter: president obama is focusing on the bigger picture, telling b.e.t. in an interview airing this evening -- >> this is not solved overnight. it's deeply rooted in our society and history. >> reporter: the widow of eric garner says it wasn't about black and white, but insists it's a crime nonetheless. >> i feel that he was murdered unjustly. >> reporter: from a death on a staten island sidewalk to

protests in streets around the country. a trial for the american justice system. the latest nbc news poll shows that 47% of americans says that law enforcement uses different standards based on race. betty. back pedaling continues for rolling stone magazine after a controversial article about sexual assault at the university of virginia. now on friday the magazine apologized for disprepsys in a report with a young woman who said she was gang raped at a fraternity party. rolling stone says there's discrepancies in her account, and our trust was misplaced. they are updating the policy, saying the mistakes are on rolling stone, not on jackie. the magazine acknowledged that the reporter never interviewed her alleged attackers.

national fraternity and sorority orders are calling on the university to reinstate the greek system which was suspended after it was published. if you filled up your car, you are smiling. the average price, $2.72 a gall gallon. that's a 12 cent. the lundberg survey says it's from a stronger dollar and a big supply. but russia's economy is shrinking, russian actions in the ukraine situation, the sanctions, cutting crude production are to blame. apparently president obama's hard line economic sanctions are having an impact. pushing their economy to eighth in the world below spain. but here in new york city a

much-anticipated royal invasion. prince william and kate middleton are here for the first visit to the u.s. they'll be here until tomorrow. he is set to meet president obama in d.c. and going to the metropolitan museum. but the king of england will go see the king of the hardwood, lebron james. they will catch an nba game between the brooklyn nets and the cleveland cavaliers. and football action on nbc. a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to beat the chargers 23-14. the pats won for the eighth time in the past nine games. in an afc north matchup, a.j. green had a career-high day. he caught 11 passes for 224 yards and an 81-yard touchdown. but not so fast, steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger threw three touchdowns,

including this one in the fourth quarter. they beat the bengals 42-21. and here is something you may not have heard in a while, peyton manning through for zero touchdowns. it is rare and just ended a 51-game streak that began back in 2010. but the broncos win 24-17. college football's first playoff is set on new year's day, alabama against ohio state in the sugar bill. and oregon plays florida state in the rose bowl. they will meet at at&t stadium on january 12th. and lindsey vonn, won her first world cup race in two years. her boyfriend, tiger woods, tied for last place in his comeback at the hero world challenge. justin spieth blew away the

competition there. in major league soccer, the l.a. galaxy won their fifth mls cup. it is also american soccer star landon donovan's final game of his career. he's the mls leading scorer and the most accomplished soccer player in u.s. history. congratulations to him. get down to business, shall we, landon downey, good morning to you. >> good morning. if you're done with the holiday shopping, retailers want you to keep going. it's green monday. in 2009 it was marked by ebay to mark the biggest day in december. it's now $1.4 billion as of last year. former employees of bernie madoff will find out how long they will be behind gbars. sentences could range from 8 to 20 years.

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is still deadly. sustained winds up to 125 miles per hour. it's expected to reach manila early on tuesday. the weather here. we're in store for something not to great. >> strong, gusty winds out of the northeast. a lot of heavy precipitation. but the cold air is not held in place. it's going to hug the coast and wrap the warm air off the coast inland. and thing to all rain. it'll be a soaking rain. and definitely be problems. even though it's rain, come tuesday, philadelphia to d.c., nigh especially, up into boston and hartford. fly today and change your flight, do so. the later on tuesday, the better for areas of the northeast airports. this is tuesday at 4:00. the worst up here aren't providence and boston. slowly improving through the mid-atlantic. the snow is the blue. the areas that get the heavy snow, interior sections of pennsylvania and through the

adirondacks. and binghampton, syracuse, maybe a ski resort special. a lot of the lower elevations, 2 to 3 inches of rain. >> more cold rain. >> yeah. i'm getting worried about a white christmas for a lot of places. no snowstorms behind this. >> we have time. that could change. >> two weeks. a chilling headline from the new york times. within a matter of two hours the wife of pierre korkie received a message saying he was about to be released and then she was told he was killed by his captors. it happened during a failed rescue attempt to rescue luke somers. and now u.s. officials say aing to might have alerted the captors as the s.e.a.l.s approached the compound. a woman and a 10-year-old boy were among 11 others killed. three good samaritans are dead after they stopped to hit a

motorist. the car they were driving in was struck by another car, causing their deaths. six others were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. the driver of the car that hit the bear walked away from the accident. one of bill cosby's close friends is weighing in on his rape allegations. bill cosby has been a good friend for many years, and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. i would never tolerate this kind of behavior regardless of who was involved. one of cosby's accusers said she was arrested at the playboy mansion in 1975 when she was just 15 years old. he has denied all allegations. officials in illinois are investigating an intentional chlorine gas leak at a chicago hotel. 19 people were taken to the hospital dr dizziness and nausea.

it was during the fur fest. and dozens of people in animal costumes were forced to evacuate the building. part of the fur fest. and the internet is buzzing over the discovery channel special that was supposed to feature a man being eaten alive by an that con da. the show did not live up to the promise. after getting wrapped inside of the anaconda, they came to the rescue after he said his arm was starting to break. that's what they do. moving on now. george w. bush on psychobabble. is john boehner really the weeper of the house? and snl's take on reverend al sharpton. scrambled politics is next. go power...oats! go! made from oats cheerios! cheerios! go, go, go! go power oats! go! cheerios! go power! go...power!

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for the road ahead. that's the power of streamlined connections. that's merrill edge and bank of america. now here's your first look at scrambled politics on a monday. 20 minutes past the hour. mary landrieu was defeated by republican bill cassidy in louisiana's senate runoff race. cassidy's win gives the gop app 54-seat majority in january. it's the largest majority since harry truman was president. it's the first time in 1232 years that her seat will be held by a republican. and criticizing the new book about his father. >> i think it's typical psychobabble of somebody who has no clue what he's talking about. >> the reviewer said he was in competition with his father.

in his book, he says there's no need to compete. during an interview on abc's this week, new york mayor bill de blasio talked about the tension following the decisions in the cases. >> we have to have an honest conversation about a history of racism. an honest conversation about the problem that's caused parents to feel their children may be in danger in their dynamics with police when in fact police are there to protect them. >> officials in north korea are calling the massive cyber attack on sony pictures a righteous deed. they deny any involvement in the hack, but said supporters might be behind it. house speaker john boehner has inspired the name of a racehor racehorse. twitter jokesters said he's weeper of the house. and now a thoroughbred, weeper

of the house has won two races this year in. saturday night live is addressing theer ingarner grand jury decision. keenan thompson expresses how excited he is that people are siding with him on the issue. >> now all over the country there are protests. and for the first time in my life, everyone agrees with me. folks are high-fiving with me, inviting me places. this must be what it feels like to be beyoncé. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. joined by jane tim. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> all right, get down to the cia interrogation report. supposed to reveal shocking details on the torture methods used on the 9/11 terror suspects. how explosive is this information? >> the senate intelligence committee has been looking at this for years. we have seen more details coming out.

this is the first time the public gets to look at the report. it says the that the torture tech neeniques were not that effective. and brings into question about what the white house knew about the methods and what they were. >> and in detail too. that's going to spark people to be outraged by it. sleep deprivation, sexual demeaning we were talking about. there is a lot here that -- it's not what people think of when they imagine -- >> which is why we are learning that the department of justice, not the department of justice, but the u.s. embassies have been pretty much put on alert, saying once this gets released, be prepared because there could be violence. how serious is this for the u.s.? >> you know, secretary kerry called dianne feinstein on the senate intelligence committee this weekend and said i'm worried about this. it's unclear why he waited so long, we have known the report

was going to come out for a long time. with the islamic state and the threat of westerners joining the islamic state with anti-american sentiment, this can fuel that. >> now move on to the department of justice and the racial profiling. these new laws, new guidelines, if you will, how impactful will they be? >> they're seen as a step in the right direction. they are taking sexual, racial profiling out of certain situations, but they're not talking them out of every situation. not out of border -- how they handle that and airports. u.s. police officials are still allowed to profile based on religion or race in certain situations i think we have known this report was coming for a while. but with the things in ferguson and staten island, they are seen as much more explosive because of what's happening elsewhere. >> see what good they will do. and just ahead, expecting

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leading the news from wales online. watch the terrifying midair collision on the winter wonderland sky ride. 14 passengers, were nearly 200 feet in the air when high winds caused empty seats to scream so wildly. >> who's screaming louder, you or me? >> the ride shut down automatically, and the shaken passengers were back on the ground 15 minutes later. but not happy, i'm sure. >> i was stuck on a ride once. >> really? >> at disney, space mountain.

>> upside down? >> it was in the ramp like this. i was stuck for 45 minutes as a kid. >> traumatized you, i see. i'm betty wynns, this is first look on msnbc. way too early with thomas roberts is coming up. it starts right now. protests overnight in berkeley, california, over the eric garner chokehold case. what two presidents have to say about the grand jury's decisions, and how american athletes are showing their criticism. and a man dies during a s.e.a.l. team 6 effort to rescue him. anger from his family about the effort. and royal arrival, prince william and the dutchess of cambridge arrive in the big apple. we have details on their american journey. this is "way too early."

good morning. i'm mika b, thomas roberts has e morning off. it is not the 8th guys, isn't it the 12th? we begin in the protests that have turned violent. the unrest began after one protester smashed the window of a radioshack store. others in the group of up to 400 people vandalized other stores and police cars. they used tear gas after protesters descended on the state freeway and blocked traffic. officers were deployed after explosives were thrown. they deny that was the case. demonstrations are largely peaceful in new york city. hundreds staged rallies or die-in protests at city landmarks. macy's and